Jan Van Haaren
Head Of Football Insights & Innovation
Lo-Reninge, West Flanders, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Van Haaren is a data-driven leader who builds and scales football analytics functions, currently heading Football Insights & Innovation at Club Brugge with 12 years of experience bridging machine learning research and applied sports products. He has a PhD in AI and a long track record designing ML-based tools for player recruitment, match analysis and player development across academia, startups and elite clubs. Jan has repeatedly built teams and evidence-based decision processes from scratch, shipping automated opponent and player analysis pipelines that directly inform transfer and match preparation choices. His work spans technical research (transfer learning, probabilistic models) to product delivery, including models to estimate transfer fees and bespoke playing-style metrics. He remains an active researcher at KU Leuven while also contributing data to EA Sports’ FIFA franchise, a detail that highlights his connections across industry, research and product. Colleagues value him for combining rigorous academic foundations with pragmatic, impact-focused engineering in professional football.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD in Engineering Science: Computer Science Artificial Intelligence, PhD in Engineering Science: Computer Science Artificial Intelligence at KU LeuvenLatin and Mathematics, Latin and Mathematics at Sint-Pietersinstituut Turnhout
Dutch, English, French, German
Github Skills (14)
scrape10
stream10
scraper10
census10
mls10
event-data10
sports-data10
elo10
espn10
player10
data-stream8
python7
analytics6
event-stream5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
JanVanHaaren/soccer-analytics-resources
Oct 2020 - Nov 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
soccer-analytics-research/player-chemistry
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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